Admist all the impending deadlines and the stress that comes with it, I'm grateful for this bunch of people (including Najiah and Nick Wee) who have made my last several weeks pleasant and memorable.
We did well at the Singapore International Salsa Festival and Singapore International Ballroom Dancing Championships, tomorrow evening, it'll culminate at Una Noche Solamente.
After training so intensively together, it's suddenly over and I'm at a loss. I don't know what's going to happen after that. Most of the seniors are going on overseas exchange or graduating, and I wonder what it'll be like for the current batch of Year 2s to take charge. We've looked up to the seniors and often sought advice from them, and now it's our turn to lead the new batch of dancers, I'm not sure if we're ready for that.
But that's beside the point. Over the weeks, we battled fatigue, injuries, and time constraints to tackle our most difficult Salsa choreography, and with the hilarious nonsense, lunches, dinners and study sessions together, we've grown pretty close, and I don't want to see any of them leave. =( I've grown an emotional attachment to the team, I think that's what happens when we go through challenges together. It just different when there's no Kelly to teach the girls to be sexy and do their styling properly, nor any Chin Ta / Joshua / Terry / Douglas to be benchmarks of retardness and man-liness for the guys to follow.
Steph's birthday dinner last night was especially nice. The bunch of us just chilled out at her place despite the fact that it was Week 11. And I thought of all these. There's still a lot of emotions that are indescribable. The kind of indescribable that resides in you when you know the people you've spent so much time with and had a blast with are going to be away.
I hope that months down the road, we can still hang out and crack retarded jokes together. I hope we will be able to be comfortable around each other like how we are now. Because such moments will inevitably fade into the untouchable abyss of our memories, and where I wasn't able to do so with the TJ dancers, I wish I will be able to continue re-creating moments with Caderas Latinas. It's knowing that these aren't always within my control that makes me sad.
